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Word: flat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain Cindy Green led the way, finishing in first place in her jumping class and second in the intermediate equitation on the flat. Green, who has been the force behind the Crimson equestrian team, was riding for the first time in the intermediate class...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Equestrian Team Leaps to Fifth Place | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

Freshman Susan Andersen won first place in her novice equitation on the flat and pulled out second place in jumping class...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Equestrian Team Leaps to Fifth Place | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

Although health warnings are now required oncigarette packaging in the U.S. and in Europe,most other nations lack such requirements. Lastyear, overseas sales by RJR increased about 10percent, although U.S. sales have remained flat...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Tobacco Divestment Weighed | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

Only in its final landfall did Gilbert reveal a benign side. The hurricane hit a relatively unpopulated area of Mexico, 110 miles southwest of Brownsville, Texas, where the terrain of mountains and flat farmland helped undermine its strength. It did bring more than 6 in. of rain, causing flooding in an area the size of Colorado. At week's end it had spun off some 30 tornadoes twisting around coastal Texas. High winds and battering rain were expected as far north as Chicago. Gilbert, according to Mark Zimmer of the National Hurricane Center, will turn into a "huge rainmaking machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was No Breeze | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...baseball for $10,000 dollars apiece? Sayles, who also plays Ring Lardner, a Chicago sportswriter who suspects wrongdoing in the Series, offers an explanantion--the stinginess of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey (Clifton James) While Comiskey courts the Chicago media with champagne-catered press conferences, he gives his players flat champagne and no extra bonuses for winning the pennant...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Yes, It's So, Joe | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

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